I'm currently working on 2 utilities absolutely unrelated to anything I'm doing here at Microsoft. This isn't new since I've been doing this ever since I got into the industry (even before I was an official "programmer"). This time I have 2 utilities...

I find that one of the best ways to learn something new is to not fire up a search engine and start reading what other people have done but to do it yourself. Someone asked me yesterday how you would go about calling a .NET assembly from client side JScript...

Every once in awhile, I do something in .NET that just makes me love it even more. If you come from a C++ (and esp. an ATL/COM) background, you'll probably have those moments too. Here's one that came to me today (note that this project is just a daily...